the Jean Deveaux Novels Stranger in Night

Jean Deveaux is a French interpreter living a solitary life in Dublin - until an old associate shows up asking for a favour that pulls him into a darker, hidden world. Veo's niece, Maria, has vanished while begging on the streets. The police have done little, and Jean is the family's only hope of speaking to the detective in charge. Grieving parents, secrets buried under guilt, and a city that doesn't want to look too closely - Jean never asked for this, but he's drawn in deep. As the search for Maria intensifies, so does the pull of old ghosts and past mistakes. What begins as a translation job becomes a desperate search for redemption. "He wanted to run from this place. He wanted to go home. Wherever that was." A powerful literary crime novel about justice, identity, and what we owe each other - even when the past says we owe nothing at all